Fair Nizhny Novgorod

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Nizhny Novgorod Fair
Exhibition hall of the fair

Exhibition hall of the fair

Data
place Russia ,
Nizhny Novgorod , Kanawinsky Municipality
builder Agustin de Betancourt
architect Auguste de Montferrand
Architectural style Neo-Russian, Empire
Construction year 1817
Coordinates 56 ° 19 '42 "  N , 43 ° 57' 39"  E Coordinates: 56 ° 19 '42 "  N , 43 ° 57' 39"  E
particularities
Permanent exhibition "Russia is my story",
seat of the inauguration of the governor

The Nizhny Novgorod Fair ( Russian: Нижегородская ярмарка ) was a fair in Russia that was held annually in July from the mid-16th century to 1816 near the Makarev Monastery on the left bank of the Volga . After a devastating fire in 1816, it was moved to Nizhny Novgorod . Nevertheless, it was still referred to as the “Makariev Market” for several decades. The fair attracted many merchants from India , Iran and Central Asia .

According to Durland , a journalist who attended the fair in 1905, the origins of the fair date “before the discovery of America”. The fair was founded by Muscovite princes to compete with and divert trade away from the Kazan Fair, which has been held since 1257 . At the time Durland attended the fair, it consisted of 60 buildings, 2,500 bazaars and 8,000 exhibits of merchandise along with a wide range of appearances for the public.

The fair was a trading center that was supposed to sell about half of all export goods produced in Russia . The fair no longer took place from 1929.

In 1991 a company called Nizhegorodskaja jarmarka ( Russian: Нижегородская ярмарка , Nizhny Novgorod Fair / Fair) was founded with its headquarters in the former main building of the fair. The fair building later became an exhibition center. The hotel is located in the historic center of old Kanavino .

See also

literature

  • Alexandre Dumas : De Paris à Astrakan ou Voyage en Russie , 1858.
  • Henry Alexander Munro-Butler-Johnstone: A trip to the Volga to the fair of Nizhny Novgorod. J. Parker and co., Oxford 1876.
  • Anne Lincoln Fitzpatrick: The great Russian mass: Nizhny Novgorod, 1840–90. Macmillan, Houndmills / Basingstoke / Hampshire; in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-333-42437-9 .
  • Jules Verne: Michael Strogoff: The Tsar's Courier . (This historical novel contains a description of the Nizhny Novgorod Mass).
  • Kellogg Durland: The Red Rule, the true story of an adventurous year in Russia. The Century Company, New York 1908, pp. 320-329. (A description of the fair that the author, a journalist, attended shortly after the dissolution of the first Duma in 1905).

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